Posts tagged school
Ping Pong Across the Indian Ocean
Ping Pong Across the Indian Ocean

Many people didn’t know what Pakistan was. Right after 9/11, they did…

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Moving, Asia, Education, SchoolBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)isolation, cities, homework, Perth, college, hometown, study, friends, school, Australia, work, home, Tck, parents, awareness, home country, friendship, house, TCK TOWN, cricket, Arabs, TCK, move back, life, Pakistani, homes, countries, immigrants, high school, world, tck, Australian, travelled, moving, holidays, South Asian, summer, country, Pakistan, third culture kid, Karachi, settle, South Asia Comments
The Pink Lion from Tanzania
The Pink Lion from Tanzania

I wanted to claim Tanzania as my home, but how could I? I was not accepted by others as a part of their country…

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Where Are You From?, AfricaBy Abby Farran (From America & South Africa. Living in Tanzania)Tck, TCK, third culture kid, TCK TOWN, Tanzania, South Africa, home, identity, school, friends, family, country, accent, speak, languages, America, States, culture, cultures, ethnicities, living, blend, experience, life experiences, AfricaComment
Social Hide & Seek
Social Hide & Seek

Our version of a corsage was a motia flower and though street vendors would sell these readily, they were not durable enough to hang around the hands of people as they danced…

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SchoolBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identity, Pakistan, Pakistani, school, high school, dance, ball, social, Australia, family, mother, friends, Perth, Western AustraliaComment
Condoms on Bananas & Toxic Attitudes
Condoms on Bananas & Toxic Attitudes

I still remember sex education class vividly. Condoms on bananas, cheesy videos, and the odd inappropriate comment from one or the other of my classmates. I was in an all-boys school in Perth, Australia…

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Sex, RelationshipsBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)TCK TOWN, Tck, TCK, third culture kid, culture, sex, sexuality, education, Perth, Australian, Australia, Pakistani, Pakistan, school, boys, youngComment
My Black Community Accuses You
My Black Community Accuses You

I soon realized that I’d avoid anyone who was Black unless they were someone my inner circle knew. I didn’t want to make friends with everyone. I just wanted to survive. What I didn’t realise was how racist I became to protect myself…

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Racism, CommunityBy Shannon Irby (From Ramstein, Tucson, Okinawa, Adana, D.C., San Antonio & Houston. Living in Okinawa.)TCK, tck, Tck, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, racism, school, high school, american, African, black, move, moving countries, moving, teaching, studentsComment
Return to Rural Life
Return to Rural Life

People of such areas are deprived of basic facilities. They have no easy access to big cities, roads are damaged, and elected assembly members visit every five years, never to return within their tenure. But still, they live happy lives...

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Where Are You From?, CommunityBy Arshad Ali (From the Sobho Khan Zaunr Village. Living in Hyderabad)TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, Hyderabad, Pakistan, village, city, urbanisation, school, illiteracy, The Citizen Foundation, welfare, community, economy, poverty, ancestral, rural, local, traditional Comment
I Just Want a Matchstick
I Just Want a Matchstick

We were in Costa Rica, two months in, on a year-long adventure of travel, volunteering, and growth…

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Moving, In Good TasteBy James and Hannah Cheng (From South East Asia, Canada, Australia. Living in Pemba until Aug 4)tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, third culture kid, Spanish, moving, borders, language, languages, life, Costa Rica, adventure, travel, volunteering, cooking, Melbourne, Australian, Australia, Malaysian, Malaysia, Brunei, Canada, Potrero, dinner, home, English, Mandarin, China, school, fluent, TicoComment
To a Land of Simpler Life and Spanish
To a Land of Simpler Life and Spanish

My earliest memories are of traveling back and forth on ‘Mr. Continental’ and ‘Mr. American’ from Honduras to Illinois, to see Grandma and Grandpa at Christmas time and feed the cows…

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Where Are You From?, MovingBy Zachary King (From Costa Rica, Honduras, and Joplin. Living in Joplin)tck, Tck, TCK TOWN, TCK, third culture kid, adaptability, moving, Joplin, Missouri, Spanish, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, memories, flying, family, friends, travel, home, food, school, childhood, holidays, missionaryComment
The Hale Boys
The Hale Boys

Your purpose in life isn’t just found in big cities, away from supposed intellectual backwaters. It’s found wherever you feel the most alive and the most genuine and such a place isn't often tacked to a specific postcode.

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Thank YouBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, compassion, friends, school, Pakistani, Perth, Western Australia, international students, Malaysian, Australia, Indonesia, Sindhi, South Asia, Sanskrit, Singapore, Bali Comments
The First Three Goodbyes
The First Three Goodbyes

The memories of the last goodbye would come flooding back — the guilt that I hadn’t embraced the moment, the feeling of contentment that I had made friends for life, the experiences I had locked into my memory, and most of all, the sadness that this all was all coming to a grinding halt…

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GoodbyeBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)goodbyes, TCK, ATCK, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, cult, family, friendship, friends, moving, Australia, Pakistan, Pakistani, Australian, schoolComment
Micronesian Chinese Money in Alaska
Micronesian Chinese Money in Alaska

My family lived abroad. The arts embraced in Micronesia were very different from those in British Hong Kong. There was little chance to delve into interpretive or classical art. When you weren’t taking the aspects you liked, discarding what you didn't and establishing your own local spin on painting, dance and music, you had to go microcosmic...

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Thank You, Traditions & CustomsBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)TCK TOWN, tck, Tck, TCK, third culture kid, cultural, culture, art, the arts, Micronesia, creative, mother, father, family, school, parents, museum, France, Austria, Holland, Hong KongComment